Understand Your Dreams - Prof. Mark Solms

[Music] Mark whenever you're ready um just feel free to get started there Hobson said these two further things uh the one was he said that if you if you look at this random mental activity that's generated uh in the way I've just described you can find meaning in it in the same way as you can find meaning in

an ink plot the ink plot itself is meaningless it's just a random uh outcome of how the ink fell when you uh when you when you've fold the page on which the ink plot has landed it creates this meaningless pattern but you can find meaning in it you can say it reminds me of a butterfly

or it reminds me of a bat or a vampire and this might say something about you the meaning that you find in the ink plot but the crucial thing is that the meaning isn't actually in the ink plot you have projected it onto the inkblot you have it's it's it comes after the

fact um and so the the says Hobson dreams are inherently meaningless things just like ink plots are inherently meaningless things and psychoanalysts project meanings onto them uh in exactly the way that um that um uh worried uh pop-up uh that you know you can you can do anything you like uh if the method that you use is

finding meaning behind things uh rather than um the kinds of methods that that Hobson and Juve um and and izzarinsky and clickman and DeMent used where there are objective ways of testing your theories um and and uh verifying uh by falsifiable predictions uh whether you're on the right track or not um so this was one of the things that

Hobson said the other thing that Hobson said was uh as I've told you therefore the Floridian Theory must be um the the dreams do not work the way that Freud said they know wishes they know motivations there's no psychodynamics um there's no inherent mental process behind the dreams at all and and uh and